high-flown

(flōn)

adjective

  1. extravagantly ambitious or aspiring
  2. high-sounding but meaningless; bombastic

See high-flown in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
  1. Exceedingly lofty or exalted: high-flown ideas about the history of Christianity.
  2. Highly pretentious or inflated: high-flown rhetoric.

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